They had been college roommates, super close, until that terrible night. That could certainly suggest rage at the victim. Who couldve done a . The boyfriend . Something didnt seem right. Her ex . He was very obsessed. It went kroll for two decades but she was sure she knew who the killer was and even got a you could not have shocked me more. Hello. Welcome to dateline. When Angie Samota walked into a room, people notice. Pretty. Vivacious and outgoing. The College Student had her choice of dates. Late one friday night, angie was murdered. A crucial clue pointed to one man, but in thiS Case, nothing was as it seemed. It would take decades and date tenacious friend to uncover the truth. Here is Josh Mankiewicz within the middle of the night. It was a Saturday Morning in October 1984 when Sheila Wysockis Phone ring. It was a girlfriend. Theres been an accident. An accident involving sheilas good friend, Freshman Roommate and good friend at southern methodist university, Angie Samota. I initially thought angie had been in a car accident. Of course, went through, she in the hospital . Where is she . I wasnt getting any information. My girlfriend was crying. Thats because it was not an accident. The same morning, Angies Sorority Sister evelyn was given the new straight out by two friends. They told me angie had been murdered. She had been found naked with a lot of stab wounds. It was absolute shock. Angie samota had not only been killed but butchered. Repeatedly stabbed in her own bedroom. It was a bloody end to a life that had so much promise. She was the most amazing person. She was full of life. She could light up a room. She was a very hard worker and she knew where she was going. She was very driven. And she had grown up in amarillo, texas, and attended the all Girl School in dallas. She had just bought a condo near the smu campus. Angie was this amazing, shining star. To so many people that she knew. She was brilliant before her time. She was a double major in Engineering And Computer science at a time when girls were not doing that. She had this amazing shraddha v, this love of life. Was really the life of the party. Beautiful. Intelligent. Single. And 20 years old. A combination that attracts men of all kinds. She used to get notes on her car. She would give flowers. She would come in and show me who wrote her that day. She had a lot of attention. Absolutely a lot of attention. Mi right thinking she may not have the best taste in guys . She didnt choose wisely at that point in her life. Some of those choices and some of those men would figure prominently in the stories of her life and of her death. There was lance who angie dated back home in amarillo and through her Freshman Year in dallas, according to her friends, angie said she was afraid of lance because he had a Temper And Dad once pulled a knife on her. There was ben, the boyfriend at the time of her death. Older and already out of school, he was a Construction Supervisor in dallas. Sounds like he was the opposite of lance. I would say he was the opposite of lance. There was russell. A new friend who had gone out that evening with her and her Friend Anita. Another female Engineering Student at smu. You saw her that Last Night. Yes. How what she . She was angie. She was fine. That Night Anita accompanied Angie And Russell to a series of bars and clubs. Angies Boyfriend Ben was not present. He was of where the fact that we were going out together. At least to Angies Friend evelyn, ben didnt seem like the type to get violent or jealous. You could never imagine him hurting angie . I could never imagine ben hurting angie. Angie dropped russell off at his apartment which was Walking Distance from her home. Then took anita home. Anita thought about spending the night at angies but decided against it. What was the last thing you said to Each Other . See you tomorrow at the football game. She doesnt meet me there. Very strange goes angie was pretty much a woman of her word. I remember saying, i wonder where angie is . My roommate said Theres Something i have to tell you. She said, but you might want to sit down. She goes, and she was murdered Last Night and the police are wanting you to call them back. What did you think . I didnt want to believe it at first then i started with the word guy, could i have prevented . Should i have spent the night . Would things have been different . She was not the last person to see angie alive. It turns out Angies Boyfriend ben was that person. She had stopped by his place on her way home after dropping off anita. Later that night, it was ben who called police to Angies Condo and what got their attention was not just what ben said but how he sounded when he said it. Does he sound frantic . Panicked . Investigators didnt think so. Coming up. Police start focusing on ben but soon the list of suspects gets longer. 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From what you could tell, did Angie Samota have enemies . Seamanship broken hearts but enemies, didnt seem she had enemies. Everyone liked her a lot. The only people mad at her work exboyfriends or people who wanted to be her boyfriend. Police focused on the man in Angies Life starting with ben, her then boyfriend. Ben told police a story that sounded a bit suspicious. He said after dropping off anita after their Night Out, angie stopped by his place, waking him up for a brief visit and then she drove home. Within minutes of reaching her condo, ben said angie called him around 1 45 a. M. And in that phone call, ben said angie told him she let a man she didnt know into her home in the middle of the night. Man a way as to use her phone and bathroom. Been said angie hung up, promising to call him back a few minutes later but she never did ben said and she didnt answer his calls. Concerned, ben told police he drove to her condo. But Angie Wasnt answering her door either, now ben was locked outside, calling police on the early generation Mobile Phone in his truck. Sounding, to them, oddly calm. My girlfriend called me and said there was a man in the apartment using the bathroom and now i cant get her to answer the phone. Her car is here and she wont answer the door. He broken . He didnt break in . Police werent sure what to make of ben and his version of events. There was no way to tell whether the store that ben told police on the 911 tape actually happen . The only thing we had was his word. No Cell Phone records and no records of local Phone Calls at that call may never have happened . That is correct. I would expect someone come i cant find her. I dont know where she is. Shes not answering. It was a mellow, feeling less phone call. Somebody who didnt seem too concerned. He waited in the Living Room while police went into the bedroom and they came out and told Him Angie was dead. The first responding officer, what he remembered most, even after he discovered the body and said so, ben didnt even ask what condition, how she was, or anything like that. Sometimes people who dont is the question because they already know the answer . Exactly. Didnt ask how she was killed. Gunshot . Stab wounds . There was something else. Bens story may have been suspicious but ben himself was squeaky clean. This was approximately 2 00 a. M. He had been awakened from sleep and he arrived at the location in a clean pressed shirt and he smelled of soap as if he had just cleaned up. Attended to raise some suspicions with the first responding officer that something didnt seem right. While police were trying to process the Story Ben was telling, they widen their investigation to include angies Exboyfriend Lance. The boy next door in amarillo. The Boy Angie had trouble with. It was something her Friend Sheila knew all about. He was very obsessed with angie. He was so obsessed, he would come down all the time to school to see her. That had data through angies Freshman Year. One night i got a call from angie and she was crying. She said lance had gone crazy, and i needed to get over there. She was screaming. Lance had taken a knife and shredded all her clothes. Did he threaten her . Yes, he did. Physically . Verbally . Verbally. And you have a weapon, he threatened her. Hes a pretty scary guy. He is creepy. Suddenly lance was at the top of the investigators list. Prime suspect. Especially when theres an 18 and stabbing. There was no forced entry. Suggesting however got in and had either figured out a way of getting an undetected angie knew them and let them in. Yes. All of that pointed to the Exboyfriend Lance or to angies current Boyfriend Ben. Or maybe to a new man in her life, a man she had been out with the Last Night of her life, russell. Soon police would ask sheila, then a College Student to help narrow down the list of suspects and solve the crime. He killed her. He needed to pay for it. Coming up. Sheilas nerveracking night with suspect number 1. I am sitting across from this Man Thinking i Meeting Dinner with a murder were. Investigators get a break. Pete g. Writes, my tween wants a new phone. How do i not break the bank . We gotcha, pete. Xfinity mobile was designed to save you money and gives you access to wifi speeds up to a gig. So you get high speeds for low prices. Better than getting low speeds for high prices. Right, bruce . Jealous . Yeah, look at that. Honestly, someone get a helmet on this guy. Get a free unlimited line for a year when you buy one unlimited line. Plus, get up to 800 off Google Pixel 9 phones. Switch today who wanted Angie Samota to dead . An autopsy determined she had been sexually assaulted just before she was stabbed to death. Her Friend Sheila. I found out she had been raped. I Cant Think of anything else. It was overwhelming. Emotionally. It was hard for Angies Friends to hear but rape did help Law Enforcement because they had the Perpetrators Dna Profile but in the mid80s, that wasnt the help it would be today. In 1984, they could do a type of Blood Testing where they can determine whether or not an individual as a secretor or nonsecretor. Narrow it down to 20 of the population. Roughly 80 of americans are secretors meaning their bodily fluids contain markers for blood type. The other 20 known as Non Secretor dont have those markers. The killer was a nonsecretor . Correct. That meant it could not be lance, the exboyfriend. Angies friend say she told them lance had threatened her with a knife. Blood tests revealed lance was a secretor. In addition, lance had an alibi putting up 370 miles away on the night of the murder. He was staying with his parents and amarillo working at the local so they were satisfied he was not in town when it took place. He was a laminated based on that. What about ben . Angies oddly unemotional boyfriend who officers thought active strangely the night of the murder. Did police check to see if there were scratches or bruises on him . They check that. They checked his vehicle. They checked his apartment for any type of blood, bloody clothes or anything. Nothing. Tests showed ben was also a secretor. Whoever raped and killed angie was not so cross ben off the list. Which leaves rustle. He was a nonsecretor so he could not be eliminated. Has alibi was that he was at home in bed. No witness could confirm where he was after he was dropped off by Angie And Anita. No one can confirm he went to bed where he was after that. Did he ever move off that story . No. And there was nothing romantic about the evening. The Night Out with three young people. He continued to insist he didnt have interest in angie. Correct. Have the feeling No One believed that. A lot of things were adding up. Soon police were questioning about Russell Buchanan. Was or something specific they wanted to know . Did i think he was romantically interested in angie was the primary question. I think they were piecing together we went out that night and he had romantic interest in her and maybe she had rebuffed him and since he lived within Walking Distance that he had committed the crime. What anita did not know was the day after the crime, russell left town for about 24 hours. It seemed suspicious. When he returned, police paid him a visit and he said he didnt know anything about angies murder. Even though was in the headlines and all over local news. It seemed hard to believe. Police saw both motive and opportunity. While there was no witness pleasing russell at the Crime Scene, there was No One to back up his alibi. Angies Friend Sheila met with the Lead Detective who laid out for her the Police Theory. Russell snapped is the word he used. Then, he grabbed a knife, took her into the room, and proceeded to rape her. Probably The One And Only murder he would do. It was a passionate moment and he snapped. He is going to be back to his old call himself. Investigators asked sheila to have dinner with russell and ask about his whereabouts the night of the murder. She agreed. It was so uncomfortable. I am sitting across from this Man Thinking i Meeting Dinner with a murder were. Im getting into a car with a murderer. He murdered my roommate. Even to sheila, russell stuck with the story just as he had after the murder when police asked him to take a lie detector test. In fact, russell was found to be truthful when asked questions about angies murder. About three months later, Dallas Police took a second look. They looked at the polygraph again and came to the consensus that he was deceptive on those questions. Thats a big difference from the way the original polygraph results were perceived. Huge. They had their guide now. I didnt want to believe it was someone who was close to her. Did you think police would charge russell . Absolutely. But they didnt. He hired an attorney and stopped talking with police. They told me he lawyered up and they couldnt touch a man they said russell was leaving the country. Of course, he was leaving the country. He lawyered up. He is going to get away with murder. Not so fast. Russell buchanan is about to tell a story that will make you evaluate everything you just heard. Coming up. Russell a